Ray Malaspina of Brick, a junior at Monmouth University, talks about the impact an increase in interest in student loans would have on him. Photo by Kathleen Hopkins

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Congressional lawmakers who make critical decisions about money for college loans often do not see the faces of the young people who depend on that funding.

So a group of Rutgers University students traveled to Washington on Tuesday in hopes of changing that. But the discussion also took place in New Jersey, as students at colleges and universities in the region debated the merits of tuition aid.

Pamela Navrot of Clementon, Camden County, a Rutgers freshman, was among the students who traveled to Capitol Hill. She pays for her college education through subsidized and unsubsidized loans, as ...